“Into the Storm,” a tele­vi­sion dra­ma broad­cast by the BBC and HBO. Pro­duced by Rid­ley Scott, direct­ed by Thad­deus O’Sullivan. Bren­dan Glee­son as Win­ston Churchill and Janet McTeer as Clemen­tine Churchill. Screen­play by Hugh White­more.

Then out spake brave Hor­atius, The Cap­tain of the Gate: “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die bet­ter Than fac­ing fear­ful odds, For the ash­es of his fathers, And the tem­ples of his gods…” —“Hor­atius,” stan­za XXVII in Lays of Ancient Rome, by Thomas Bab­bing­ton Macaulay. Recit­ed at the begin­ning and at the end of “Into the Storm.”